Line #9 YMMV/DuckTales


1	Works with their own YMMV pages:
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3	* ''YMMV/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp''
4	* ''YMMV/DuckTales1987''
5	* ''YMMV/DuckTales2017''
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7	!![[VideoGame/DuckTales The games]]:
8	* AdaptationDisplacement: Due to the show not airing in years and the comics still being fairly obscure, ''[=DuckTales=] Remastered'' was probably a lot of younger gamers' first exposure to any ''[=DuckTales=]'' media before ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' premiered.
9	%%* [[AwesomeBosses/VideoGames Awesome Bosses]]: The remake's version of the Magica [=DeSpell=] fight.
10	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: ''Remastered'' has some fantastic hand-drawn animation, especially the bit where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1-sGZd2CRI&t=10m22s Scrooge has to wrestle free of a Venus flytrap.]]
11	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
12	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF32DRg9opA The Moon]], one of the greatest songs on the NES, possibly even more famous than the game itself for how awesome it is. It is so popular that it was even worked into the 2017 ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|2017}}'' series, WithLyrics!
13	** The music in ''[=DuckTales=]: Remastered'' turns the classic tunes into awesome remixes, along with some kickass new songs:
14	*** [[https://youtu.be/5uzajfGTPjA Money Bin]] has a happy-go-lucky feel to it, fitting for the start of an adventure. Its 8-bit version ain't too shabby either.
15	*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHEifuLCSIY The Moon]] is an even more badass rendition of the already badass theme. The piano version is also great.
16	*** [[https://youtu.be/HInNqoAdJeU Transylvania's]] theme is electronical Rock, and quite spooky, but then it becomes '''[[AnachronisticSoundtrack FREAKING DUBSTEP]]''' at one point of the track in. It's as hilarious and awesome as it sounds.
17	*** The [[https://youtu.be/sqhO9coG_vk Amazon]] has a nice, tropical adventure-kind of feel.
18	*** The [[https://youtu.be/pmFj03MYb1I African Mines]] now has a jazzy-feel to it.
19	*** The [[https://youtu.be/Xzl99ep0eRg Himalayas]] shifts between a playful adventure tune and a rock solo.
20	*** The [[https://youtu.be/iUrvDcZ8tRA Boss Theme]] takes the original and gives it more bombastic edge.
21	*** The entirety of the final level is full of this: [[https://youtu.be/O9rMfPjn1n0 Mount Vesuvius]]'s theme has an extremely climatic vibe to it, which espically fitting considering it's ThatOneLevel status and the boss it holds, speaking of which, we are then treated to the brand, spankin' new [[https://youtu.be/_C-EuHUNmnU Final Boss Theme]] for [[spoiler: Dracula Duck]] truly does the boss justice. It's as bombastic, frantic, and tense. And after that, we are treated to [[https://youtu.be/NMd6ZG76OSs "Dime Chase"]], which is frantic, intimidating, and tense. Oh, and the 8-bit versions of the level theme and Dime chase are also awesome.
22	* CriticalDissonance: The remake's rather divisive; several critics savaged it, but most players and many [=YouTubers=] loved it.
23	* DisappointingLastLevel: The last level of the game is... Transylvania. Which you had to go through twice before, and it's exactly the same as it was before. The remake fixes this, as the last level is replaced by [[spoiler:Mount Vesuvius, aka Magica's lair]].
24	* FanNickname: If Website/YouTube comments are any indication, many call the electronic segment of the Remastered Transylvania track "[[{{Pun}} Duckstep]]".
25	* FirstInstallmentWins: The second game's problem isn't so much it being a bad game as most gamers just not being aware that it exists (it was not released until early 1993, by which point the TV show had been canceled and many gamers had left behind the Nintendo Entertainment System for the Super Nintendo). Aside from that it's usually acknowledged to be a decent sequel, albeit not quite as good as the first.
26	* GoodBadBugs: In the Game Boy version, if you can nab one of Mrs. Beakley's ice creams before they appear on the screen, it doesn't refill your life, but instead acts as a "red" diamond, giving you $50,000! Grabbing all four nets $200,000, and you can scroll her off the screen to come back and collect again, and it's an easy way to get tens of millions of dollars by sacrificing a few lives in the African Mines for easy money!
27	* HardLevelsEasyBosses: The levels can border on PlatformHell whereas the bosses have very simplistic and predictable patterns.
28	* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
29	** The remaster reuniting the entire surviving cast of the 1987 series for one final sendoff feels especially poignant yet moving now that Creator/AlanYoung, Creator/JuneForay, Chuck [=McCann=], and Creator/RussiTaylor are no longer with us. Additionally, with the involvement of Creator/JasonMarsden and Creator/EricBauza in the game, both of whom have been involved with the show's [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 reboot]], it also comes off as something of a PassingTheTorch moment to the next generation.
30	** The Moon theme was worked into canon in the reboot, as [[spoiler:a lullaby Della Duck wrote for the triplets]].
31	* HilariousInHindsight: Music/{{Brentalfloss}} did a 'What if the Moon theme to [=DuckTales=] NES had lyrics?', at one point explicitly saying it sounds like an ending credits theme. Come ''Remastered'', the Moon theme gets a rather heartfelt piano cover in the second half of the credits. And ''even more so'' when [[spoiler: the reboot of ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|2017}}'' features the Moon theme with lyrics by Della Duck to her kids as a lullaby]].
32	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A lot of critics threw this accusation at ''Remastered'', saying that choosing to marry modern visuals and storytelling devices with 1989 gameplay was a stupid idea, and that Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/WayForward should have made a completely new game from scratch.
33	* MemeticMutation:
34	** '''DREAM AND FRIENDS'''[[labelnote: Explanation]]The prototypical and Japanese versions of the game had a very [[GoodBadTranslation Engrishy]] line where Scrooge was talking about the power of following your dreams and how your friends are important. Due to a bad translation though, Scrooge ends up saying the following.[[/labelnote]]
35	** The Moon theme is also a bit of a meme due to how incredibly awesome it is. Also helped when [[spoiler:the 2017 ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|2017}}'' made it canon]].
36	* MoralEventHorizon:
37	** In the remake's storyline, both EvilSorceress Magica De Spell and EvilCounterpart Glomgold were pretty much the [[LaughablyEvil cartoony villains]] like they were in the series. But if the former's kidnapping [[PowerTrio Huey, Dewey, and Louie]] and the latter's [[EtTuBrute teaming up]] [[ILied with Magica's side]] [[VillainTeamUp the whole time]] wasn't bad enough, there's them letting the boys be killed by Dracula Duck.
38	** Dracula Duck himself crosses it by trying to kill the boys.
39	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound:
40	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF32DRg9opA The Moon theme]] is widely, and rightfully, considered to be one of the greatest level songs in video game history, and it's a major source of SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel to boot. [[spoiler:The version with lyrics from ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 the reboot]]'' is, if anything, '''''even more''''' so.]]
41	** The jingle when you collect the level's treasure.
42	* NarmCharm: The [[GoodBadTranslation engrishy]] ending for the prototype version of the first game. Scrooge tells his nephews that the [[AnAesop one thing more important]] than the treasures he found is [[http://dreamandfriends.com/2012/12/31/dream-and-friends/ "Dream and Friends"]]. ''Remastered'' references this [[spoiler:for a heartwarming AWinnerIsYou effect upon beating the hardest difficulty mode]].
43	* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The UsefulNotes/{{NES}} game is very much in the running for being the best example of this trope; the game actually became a classic and is considered one of the finest games made during the 8-bit era, by Creator/{{Capcom}} or ''anyone''. Its sequel is rare, but had similar reception. In modern times, it's ranked up along with ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' and ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' (which is, interestingly, another Creator/{{Disney}} property) as an example of a licensed game done ''right''. Hell, ''Magazine/GameInformer'' and ''[[Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly EGM]]'' have ''both'' placed it at #2 of all-time... In fact, as it says on the game's page, the game is ''so'' popular it got an [[UpdatedRerelease HD remake]].
44	* ObviousBeta: ''[=DuckTales=] 2'' is noticably less polished than the first game. It also has Launchpad and Gyro addressing Scrooge as "Uncle Scrooge" just like the kids, an error present in the prototype version of the first game.
45	* PanderingToTheBase: ''Remastered'' with its references to the popular Moon level theme in both the level select theme, and the ending credits music (which is the TV theme song, followed by a piano rendition of the Moon theme), and with the ability to play the game using the original 8-bit music from the NES game.
46	* ParanoiaFuel: In the sequel, after getting the treasure map piece for Niagara Falls and getting busted out of the resulting trap by Bubba, Bubba drops the line "One of the treasure boxes is a trap that can lock you up!" Despite no such box existing in either version, you can potentially go through the rest of the game wondering if this so-called "trap" box does indeed exist.
47	* ThatOneAchievement: "Look Ma, No Spats". This achievement has you getting to the other side of the underground section of the Amazon, using only the pogo jump. While this was fairly easy to do in the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} version, ''Remastered decreases the amount of length between the top and the bottom, making this really hard to do, especially when the PC version of the game is running slowly. Did we mention the section is also [[SpikesOfDoom littered with thorns]]?
48	* ThatOneBoss: The Golem Duck in the second game partially hinges on luck to defeat given the randomness of where the boulders fall, as they very often will fall onto Scrooge and deplete HP. Many a player has RageQuit after consistently losing purely by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
49	* ThatOneLevel:
50	** [[spoiler:The last section of Mount Vestivus in ''Remastered''. It requires ''very'' precise plaforming, which will most of the time lead to your downfall. Toppled with the fact that you lose a life if you fail to reach the top in time.]]
51	** The Amazon and the Himalayas are considered the hardest of the initial five stages due to their higher concentration of annoying enemies and precision platforming than the others. The latter's snowdrifts that get Scrooge stuck if he lands in pogo position and FrictionlessIce platforms over BottomlessPits often accompanied by LedgeBats don't help matters.
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55	![[ComicBook/DuckTales The Comic Books]]:
56	* BrokenBase: The [[Creator/KaboomComics Boom! Kids]] comics. Many fans disliked the "Rightful Owners" saga for its plot, its artwork (which was redrawn from the original style) and its continuity errors. Some didn't like the idea of Scrooge being confronted with the fact that he was less than honest in some of his treasure hunts, and therefore should return some of these to its original owners, because it would betray the franchise's spirit of treasure hunt in favor of PoliticalOvercorrectness. Others appreciated the idea, but some felt it was poorly executed and ended up being a disservice to the theme.
57	** The ''[=DuckTales=]'' comics in general: are they as good or inferior to the episodes? Can they be considered canon? Are they comparable to the classic comics?
58	* CantUnHearIt: It's not hard to hear the voices of the original cast in their respective characters; particularly fan-favorite Creator/AlanYoung's voice in Scrooge and Creator/RussiTaylor as Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby. Comics translator Joe Torcivia commented, [[http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/rip-russi-taylor.html in his tribute to Russi Taylor]], that it was always her voices that came in mind when it came to putting the right words in the mouths of the triplets and Minnie Mouse.
59	* EnsembleDarkHorse: Minima de Spell, Magica's niece from the 1991 story Dime After Dime. Despite only appearing in one ''[=DuckTales=]'' story, she was one of the few ''[=DuckTales=]'' original characters to regularly appear in non-''[=DuckTales=]'' stories, and also inspired one of the original characters of the [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 reboot]].
60	* FanonDiscontinuity: "Dangerous Currency" was disowned by fans, especially of ''Darkwing Duck'' comics, due to its many contradictions to the DW comic canon, and being published without the approval of The Walt Disney Company.
61	** Likewise, many fans couldn't fit Rightful Owners into the DT canon due to its many [[SeriesContinuityError continuity errors]] and overall poorly handled plot and drawing.
62	* HarsherInHindsight: Doofus being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed and threatening the heroes]] in "The Gold Odyssey", considering [[AdaptationalVillainy what he becomes]] in the [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 reboot]].
63	** In the same issue, there's the DisneyDeath of Scrooge and the nephews in the cliffhanger, when Launchpad believes that the brainwashed Doofus killed them. It's sadder now that Terence [=McGovern=] really has outlived both Alan Young and Russi Taylor.
64	* SoOkayItsAverage: While the Boom Comics have a fair amount of detractors, many think they're still enjoyable enough, [[SeriesContinuityError Continuity errors with the canon]] and artwork redrawings aside, not to mention being the last goodbye to the original ''[=DuckTales=]'' team before the [[WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017 reboot]] aired up in 2017.

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